Yep, there we go, I said it. There is nothing that I hate more than AJAX.

Not very “Web 2.0″ of me, is it? Well, not exactly.

That’s because this rant isn’t about asynchronous Javascript and XML. This is about people who use AJAX interchangeably with “Javascript”, who think that AJAX means their website looks good, and who think that AJAX should be used for every single thing on their site.

So recently I finally got my hands on a Google Wave invite (many thanks to @amykate for that one), and had a bit of a chance to sit down and see what’s what.

My invite seemed to come with a bit of an influx, and quite a few people I was following got theirs too. Initially the reaction seemed very much to be “so what can I do with this?”, rapidly followed by “this is a let-down”.  I was working and hardly in a position to give it a good go, and what better way to test the features out than with a screencast? Check it out below.